The only way this could be salvaged is, if the movie won any Oscars, they had Laura Madden, Rowena Chiu, etc. accept the awards and give speeches, and then the women used their time to pointedly call out individuals in the audience applauding who enabled Weinstein and just read them for filth in front of a national…

This is ungenerous. It’s not like she writes the lyrics & melody and then hands the song off to a producer--it’s a collaborative process. She probably gives some instruction on what kind of sound she’s aiming for (colors, mood, instruments, intimacy, etc.) and Jack/Aaron comes back with some sonic suggestions, and…

Yes, but they only replaced the voice over with ScarJo’s acting in post for some scenes. They went back into production and re-filmed some other scenes with ScarJo, and filmed some entirely new scenes.

Killmonger didn’t respect the culture of Wakanda though—he even burned the sacred plants. People keep missing that. He only wanted to use Wakanda’s resources for his own purposes. The moral of Black Panther is not “Killmonger was right”; it’s “neither T’Chala or Killmonger was right. But T’Chala showed wisdom as a…

Yeah I legitimately hope Black Panther is good, like almost as good as the original. There’s still a lot of talent there. But the first one got a big sentimental bump because it was a box office juggernaut and also the First Black Superhero Movie (Blade has been memory-holed). Round Two won’t benefit from that.

Agreed. It also lacks any substantive class analysis or critique of capitalism. It points out some failings of the modern Korean state without taking the next step to “maybe we should fix the state”. Even at the end, when Gi-hun makes that baffling wager with Il-nam, the message seems to be that, since a random…

For a supposedly anti-capitalist show, it sure has sold out at the first whiff of more money bags.

Impotent, yes, but also it reflects how Viserys is uncomfortably bound to the position of king. Which is what makes him interesting. He’s a good person, but not a good king. And he understands that the king has responsibilities (both actual and symbolic) which he must perform, even as he takes no pleasure in them.…

From what I remember from watching the first season, it was painfully obvious that the key to winning was not “be objectively good” but “be Ryan Murphy’s favorite”.

The issue isn’t that they’ve added new characters — one of the Duffers’ greatest strengths is writing engaging characters (and casting really well).

If you want more tension/drama, you can lean into his feelings of alienation (ha) and loneliness as the sole survivor of his race, or how he’s always holding back his strength lest he accidentally hurt someone. Ultimately Superman chooses hope and light and love, of course, so it shouldn’t be dour, but he can be a…

To those mouthing off in the comments:

This all just feels so performative.

You could just make Iris Joe’s favorite niece. That way Barry and Iris could still have known each other--and been friends--as kids without also being foster siblings.

This or use the same characters, but exclusively in grounded storylines:

I feel like including Oscar nominations for producing when he’s primarily an actor is deceptive. 

I think it’s less that Miller has any leverage and more that as the lead, they are in almost every scene of the film, which has been fully shot, and whose cast is filled with busy professionals. To reshoot the entire film would be a massive, massive undertaking and a huge financial burden. It would also push the…

Loki was carried by the charisma of its actors and good production design (within the Time Corps headquarters). The series was somehow both rushed and half-baked despite taking three years. One very good episode and five mediocre episodes to ultimately say very little.

If Loki season 1 was the result of three whole years of her labor, I’m rather glad she’s not sticking around for season 2. So much work for such mediocre quality.

I like social satire horror films, and the cast is good, but the tone of this trailer was exhausting. Just a bingo card of Gen Z phrases, divorced from context and presented as inherently mockable. The way people talk online is very different from the way they talk in real life among their friends, and there’s so much…